TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859
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In rendering this assistance I assure
you gentlemen that I am much pleased-
Tender to each of the committee my kind respects as well as to the citizens generally-I am Very respectfully your Obt Servt [J. PINCKNEY HENDERSON] [J. Pinckney Henderson, Executive Record Book, Number 28, Page 9.)
No. 68 LETTER FROM J. P. HENDERSON TOW. S. HARNEY Executive Department Austin Texas July 23d 1846
Col W. S. Harney Commanding at San Antonio Sir
Captain Grumbles desires 'in consequence of the continued wet weather that you supply his command with tents, he is under the impression that there is some in the Com- missary store at this place, should there not be, it will be satis- factory to receive them after his arrival at San Antonio he also desires to whether or not subsistence will be furnished him out of the Comissarys store until he departs for that place his Company is near complete at this time-should you desire it, upon your departure, Captain Grumbles will visit you imme- diately I respectfully request that a team be furnished the Company for transportation- Captain Grumbles further desires instructions- whether or not Mexican traders be permitted to visit that place? Which will be fully obeyed- The Companies of Captains Ross and Smith, are now com- plete, and ready to be mustered into service at the places desig- nated in your requisition, of which I received verbal informa- tion-
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